Stephen Hicks (philosopher)

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Stephen Hicks (2013)

Stephen Ronald Craig Hicks (born August 19, 1960 in Toronto ) is an American-Canadian philosopher . He teaches at Rockford University , where he also directs the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship.

biography

Hicks earned his Bachelor of Arts (1981) and Master of Arts from the University of Guelph . He received his PhD in Philosophy (1991) from Indiana University Bloomington . His doctoral thesis was a defense of epistemological fundamentalism .

Publications

Hicks is the author of four books and one documentary. In his work Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault (Scholarly Publishing, 2014; extended edition, 2011; Portuguese translation, 2011; Serbo-Croatian translation, 2011; Persian translation, 2012; Spanish translation, 2014; Swedish translation, 2014; Polish Translation, 2016), Hicks argues that postmodernism can best be understood as a rhetorical strategy by intellectuals and academics on the far left of the political spectrum, developed in response to the failure of socialism and communism .

His documentary and book Nietzsche and the Nazis ( Ockham's Razor , 2006, 2010; Polish translation, 2014; Persian translation, 2014, Ukrainian translation, 2016; Spanish translation, 2016) is an examination of the ideological and philosophical roots of National Socialism, more precisely how Friedrich Nietzsche's ideas were used, and in some cases abused, by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis to justify their beliefs and practices. It was released as a documentary in 2006 and as a book in 2010.

In addition, Hicks has published articles and essays on a number of topics. Including entrepreneurship, free speech in science, the history and development of modern art, Ayn Rand's objectivism , business ethics and educational theory, including a series of YouTube lectures.

Hicks is also the co-editor (with David Kelley ) of a textbook on critical thinking: The Art of Reasoning: Readings for Logical Analysis ( WW Norton & Company , Second Edition, 1998) and Entrepreneurial Living (with Jennifer Harrolle, CEEF, 2016).

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephen Hicks: Foundationalism and the Genesis of Justification.
  2. ↑ It is striking that the major postmodernists - Michel Foucault , Jacques Derrida , Jean-François Lyotard , Richard Rorty  - are of the far left politically. And it is striking that all four are Philosophy Ph.Ds who reached deeply skeptical conclusions about our ability to come to know reality. So one of my four theses about postmodernism is that it develops from a double crisis - a crisis within philosophy about knowledge and a crisis within left politics about socialism. [1]
  3. ↑ In several significant respects, the Nazis were accurate in citing Nietzsche as one of their progenitors. And I think that, in a number of other respects, Nietzsche would have been properly horrified at the use that the Nazis made of his philosophy. [2]
  4. ↑ Stephen Hicks, Ph.D. »" Nietzsche and the Nazis "update . Stephenhicks.org. 2009. Retrieved March 8, 2018.
  5. ↑ Stephen Hicks, Ph.D. “Nietzsche and the Nazis . Stephenhicks.org. April 25, 2010. Retrieved March 8, 2018.
  6. ↑ [3]
  7. ↑ Free Speech and Postmodernism , (2002)
  8. ↑ Why Art Became Ugly . Heyokamagazine.com. Archived from the original on December 16, 2010. Retrieved January 7, 2011.
  9. ↑ Post-Postmodern Art . Michaelnewberry.com. Archived from the original on November 20, 2010. Retrieved January 7, 2011.
  10. ^ Objectivism page from Hicks's website
  11. ^ Business and economics ethics page from Hicks's website
  12. ^ Philosophy of Education page on Hicks's website.
personal data
SURNAME Hicks, Stephen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hicks, Stephen Ronald Craig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Canadian philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto